Microsoft Bing Updates

[Sushubh]

Bing’s COVID-19 Tracker releases new features customized to help Indian citizens - Microsoft Stories India

Microsoft has announced new features on the Bing COVID-19 Tracker to help citizens of India stay up to date with the latest on the pandemic.

news.microsoft.com

 

[Sushubh]

Bing Censors Image Search for 'Tank Man' Even in US

"There are no results for tank man," the Bing website reads after searching for the term.

www.vice.com

 

[Sushubh]

Bada Bing, Bada Boom: Microsoft Bing’s Chinese Political Censorship of Autosuggestions in North America - The Citizen Lab

We consistently found that Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese names over time, that their censorship spans multiple Chinese political topics, consists of at least two languages—English and Chinese—and applies to different world regions, including China, the United States, and Canada.

citizenlab.ca

 

[Navjot Singh]

Spring cleaning: Removed Bing anonymous sitemap submission

Inform Bing about web pages that are available for crawling via reliable and trusted ways for Sitemaps and IndexNow.

blogs.bing.com

Since day one, Bing has offered webmasters the ability to submit sitemaps URLs anonymous using a HTTP request

http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Despite its promise, recent evaluations have shown that it was often subject to misuse by spammers. As a result, we will be deprecating the ability for anonymous sitemap submissions starting today.

 

[Sushubh]

New Bing Maps Experiences: Distance Calculator, Gas Prices and Parking Finder

Let’s take a little trip. It’s raining this weekend in Seattle (surprise, surprise), so we’ve decided to head to San Diego for the sun — the weather should be better there. The first thing we want to do is figure out how far it is from Seattle to San Diego, as well as find nearby gas stations...

blogs.bing.com

 

[Sushubh]

Google announced Bard so Microsoft had to prepone this announcement.

Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web - The Official Microsoft Blog

To empower people to unlock the joy of discovery, feel the wonder of creation and better harness the world’s knowledge, today we’re improving how the world benefits from the web by reinventing the tools billions of people use every day, the search engine and the browser. Today, we’re launching...

blogs.microsoft.com

 

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[Sushubh]

Microsoft wants you to install bing app on your phone to get on the list for new Bing.

Vaš svakodnevni AI pratitelj | Microsoft Bing

Saznajte kako pristupiti kopilotu i koristiti ga za iskorištavanje impresivne snage, produktivnosti i kreativnosti AI chata.

www.bing.com

 

[SVK]

Announcement seems to just shareholders happy that they are doing something?
Anyways all companies these days announce something mostly for shareholders rather than Customers 😀

 

[Sushubh]

Source

 

[Jonas]

Bing AI chat needs to stop sourcing the Bing search results

Search engines should not show search results as answers

searchengineland.com

 

[Sushubh]

They have also restricted the bot now.


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[Navjot Singh]

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[Sushubh]

Confirmed: the new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4

Congratulations to our partners at Open AI for their release of GPT-4 today. We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, which we’ve customized for search. If you’ve used the new Bing preview at any time in the last five weeks, you’ve already experienced an early version of...

blogs.bing.com

 

[Sushubh]

Create images with your words - Bing Image Creator comes to the new Bing - The Official Microsoft Blog

Last month we introduced the new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge, your copilot for the web – delivering better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content. Already, we have seen that chat is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats...

blogs.microsoft.com

 

[Sushubh]

Microsoft Threatens to Restrict Data From Rival AI Search Tools

Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they don’t stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, according to people familiar with the dispute.

www.bloomberg.com